Captain Safdar says another year required to clear mess created by Imran
ISLAMABAD
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz has said that PTI Chairman Imran Khan had been launched in politics to “create anarchy and destruction.”
Talking to media after her court appearance in Islamabad along with hubby Captain Safdar on Thursday, Maryam Nawaz said “Imran Khan is not a stakeholder rather he is destruction of Pakistan.”
She said the forces which funded him do not want Pakistan to progress. “Imran brought the economy on the verge of collapse and he had also violated the agreement he struck with the IMF,” she added.
Calling Imran Khan a ‘fitna’ (mischief-monger), Maryam Nawaz said that during his over three-and-a-half-year rule the country’s economy reached the brink of destruction. She said Imran had even broken the country’s deal with the IMF before leaving the office, which further exacerbated the situation. Maryam alleged that some foreign powers had launched Imran to destroy the new generation’s moral values as well as corrupt the country’s politics. “These powers do not want Pakistan to progress,” she opined.
Referring to Imran’s statement that he had become more dangerous, she said these words were not meant for his political opponents, but for the country. She made it clear to the PTI chairman that if he wanted general elections in the country, he should dissolve the provincial assemblies of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Punjab first.
PML-N vice president also urged the former prime minister not to use religion for politics. She told Imran that he could not get a clean chit by putting all blame for the country’s pathetic situation on the current government’s shoulders.
“Imran, this is your party which is in power in the flood-affected provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” Maryam said, adding, “Therefore, a greater responsibility rests on your shoulders.” “Look Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is visiting all flood-hit areas of the country despite the fact that in none of the provinces the PML-N is in power,” she boasted.
Earlier, Asking what was the haste in seeing former prime minister and his father-in-law Nawaz Sharif back in Pakistan, Captain (r) Safdar, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and husband of party Vice President Maryam Nawaz, claimed on Thursday that when Nawaz, also PML-N supremo, would return to Pakistan, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan would be in jail.
Talking to reporters at the Islamabad High Court (IHC) premises, he said that if former finance minister Ishaq Dar returned to Pakistan, the value of Pak Rupee against the US dollar would go up.
He added it would take a year to clear what he called the mess created by Imran when he was the country’s prime minister. Safdar also said it was The Almighty Allah and not the PML-N, who ruled the country.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) adjourned hearing of the appeals filed by PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz and her husband Captain (r) Safdar in the Avenfield reference until September 20 when the counsel representing the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) requested the court for that.
A two-member bench of the IHC, comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, heard the appeals. Speaking on the occasion, Amjad Pervaiz Advocate, counsel for the appellants, said that the NAB’s claim that the trust deed submitted by his clients was ‘fake’ was based on the testimony given by a man named Robert Redly, who had even got his statement recorded in the court.
“I will tell to the court about Redly, who is an expert, in detail,” he said, adding, “The testimony given by an expert can never be sufficient.” The advocate went on to say that Jeremy Freeman, who was a witness to the signing of the trust deed by Hussain Nawaz, had confirmed that it was genuine.
“Freeman had confirmed this even to a firm the NAB had hired in London for the purpose, and all this part of the record,” he explained. Therefore, he argued, it would not be appropriate to convict somebody merely on the basis of the statement given by an expert.
On Calibri Font, Maryam’s counsel said that it was NAB’s duty to prove that it was not in vogue then when the deed had been signed. Addressing the counsel, the court said if the prosecution had made an accusation against his clients, he must have an evidence to prove that wrong.
“Robert Redly, the so-called expert, himself had said that the font had been in use for two years before signing of the deed,” Maryam’s lawyers told the court. Justice Aamer Farooq remarked if that was the case, then this was the end of the story.
The advocate further said that when Redly was asked whether he was an expert on fonts, he had replied in negative. Justice Kiani remarked then what was the utility of his testimony.
